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From: Mike Eggleston <mikee@sys8.wfc.com>
To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
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	Robert on Tue, 27 Feb 1996 23:28:29 +0100 (MET))
Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall)
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>>>>> "Ollivier" == Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes:

> It seems that Jerry Kendall said:
>> Now I am using the xforms library and the fdesign gui builder... It
>> looks great and works very well. Have decided to write some other
>> utilities

> Erm, do you really must use xforms ? Some of the things I saw made
> with it were awful, especially menus... (tried XFmail).  The
> interest of dialog is that it runs on the console _and_ under X11
> (well in an xterm but it is better than only X11).

Why not have a html/cgi based manager.  That would run under lynx,
chimera, mosaic, etc., for local and remote administration.

Mike